 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 880 halaman
...most fatal grow, For vice would be hereditary too. Could but our ancestors retrieve their fate, And see their offspring thus degenerate ; How we contend for birth and names unknown, And build on their great actions, not our own; They'd cancel records, and their tombs deface, And openly disown the vile... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1851 - 608 halaman
...but our ancestors retrieve their fate, And see their offspring thus degenerate ; VOL. XXV. NO. ะจ. How we contend for birth and names unknown, And build on their great actions, not our own ; They'd cancel records, and their tombs deface, And openly disown the vile... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James, Maunsell Bradhurst Field - 1852 - 322 halaman
...emotion subsided : she was calm but sad. CHAPTER XX. Could but our ancestors retrieve their fete And see their offspring thus degenerate ; How we contend...They'd cancel records, and their tombs deface, And then disown the vile, degenerate race ; For feme of families is all a cheat : Tis personal virtue only... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James, Maunsell Bradhurst Field - 1852 - 630 halaman
...emotion subsided : she was calm but sad. CHAPTER VII. Could but our ancestors retrieve their fate And see their offspring thus degenerate ; How we contend...They'd cancel records, and their tombs deface, And then disown the vile, degenerate race ; For fame of families is all a cheat : 'Tis personal virtue... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 488 halaman
...imitation set, Yet all men follow virtue with regret. COULD but our ancestors retrieve their fate, And see their offspring thus degenerate ; How we contend...degenerate race : For fame of families is all a cheat, It's personal virtue only makes us great. THE END. Printed by JOHN SKITH & Co., 62, Long Acre, London.... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 502 halaman
...imitation set, Yet all men follow virtue with regret. COULD but our ancestors retrieve their fate, And see their offspring thus degenerate ; How we contend...degenerate race : For fame of families is all a cheat, It's personal virtue only makes us great. THE END. Printed by JOHN SMITH & Co., 52, Long Acre, London.... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1855 - 482 halaman
...following lines on the nobility of personal character : " Could but our ancestors retrieve their fate, And see their offspring thus degenerate ; How we contend...They'd cancel records, and their tombs deface, And then disown the vile degenerate race ; For fame of families is all a cheat, TlS PERSONAL VIBTDE ONLY... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1855 - 244 halaman
...following lines on the nobility of personal character : " Could but our ancestors retrieve their fate, And see their offspring thus degenerate ; How we contend...They'd cancel records, and their tombs deface, And then disown the vile degenerate race ; For fame of families is all a cheat, 'TiS PERSONAL VIRTUE ONLY... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1855 - 474 halaman
...following lines on the nobility of personal character : '' Could but our ancestors retrieve their fate. And see their offspring thus degenerate : How we contend...They'd cancel records, and their tombs deface, And then disown the vile degenerate race ; For fame of families is all a cheat, TlS PERSONAL VIRTTE ONLY... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1855 - 64 halaman
...sentiment with which he concludes " The true-born Englishman :" " Then let us boast of ancestors no more, For fame of families is all a cheat, Tis personal virtue only makes us great." He was educated at an academy kept on Newington Green, by Charles Morton. He seems to have been born... | |
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Cou'd but our Ancestors retrieve their Fate, And see their Off-spring thus Degenerate; How we contend for Birth and Names unknown, And Build on their past Actions, not our own; They'd Cancel Records, and their Tombs Deface, And openly disown the Vile... 
